WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall
By Nik Osterman
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall
This is a story about why war happens when nobody truly wants it—until suddenly, everyone does.
If you grew up with the usual explanation, you were told the First World War begins with a gunshot in Sarajevo. A young man steps forward, fires two rounds, and the world falls apart. It’s neat. It’s cinematic. It has a villain, a victim, a turning point, and a date you can underline. It also has the comforting illusion that history is a line of dominoes and that one pushed the rest.
But the truth is crueler and more human.
Sarajevo was not the beginning. Sarajevo was a match. The question is why the room was full of powder.
This season is about the powder.
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The Economy of War
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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The Victors in Fear: Britain and France Hold the Line
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Russia: Retreat, Revolution, and the New Empire
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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The Crown Falls-The Republic Bleeds.
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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1918–1919: The Peace That Continued the War
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall-Hitler and Churchill
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall-Coming Home
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall.-After the War
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall-The Mailbag
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall-The Attack
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall-The Letters
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall-The Slaughter
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall-Why Soldiers Went
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall - The Rehearsals
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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The Age of Attrition 1918 — The Armistice and the Peace That Wasn’t Peace
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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The Age of Attrition 1918 — The Last Gamble
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Age of Attrition 1917 — Mutiny, Submarines, and the Breaking Point
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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The Age of Attrition 1917: The War Breaks the World
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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The Age of Attrition. 1916 — Verdun, The Somme, and the Arithmetic of Endurance.
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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The Age of Attrition. 1915 — Trenches, Stalemate, and the Invention of Modern Suffering.
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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World War One — The Age of Attrition 1914 — The Illusion of a Short War
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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War 1870 - 1949 How Empires Rise and Fall 1914: Ultimatum and Mobilizations
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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War 1870 - 1949 How Empires Rise and Fall The Balkans: The Loaded Corner
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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War 1870 - 1949 How Empires Rise and Fall Alliances: Promises That Become Traps
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Empires Overseas, Rivalries at Home (colonies, prestige, and the pressure valve that fails)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Steel, Coal, Rail: When Industry Changes War (why the scale becomes unstoppable)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Germany Rises, France Remembers (humiliation, revanche, and the psychology of a wounded nation)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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1870: The Spark Before the Fire (Franco-Prussian War and the birth of a new Germany)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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About WAR 1870–1949: How Empires Rise and Fall
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Jan 14, 2026 |